The Centre for Natural Burial

By Shannon C., Calgary Urbanite
Death, my Buddhist teacher likes to remind me, is a natural part of life. This is true until you get buried or cremated. At that point the multi-billion dollar funeral industry takes over, providing the deceased with satin-lined wood coffins festooned with brass accents (for the discriminating loved one), cement gravestones, […]

A natural burial area has been officially opened at Enfield in Adelaide.
Natural burials use a shroud or biodegradable coffin and bodies are not treated with chemicals. Funeral director Kevin Hartley says there has been plenty of interest in natural burial plots. “We’ve been conducting natural shroud burials since January last year and business has grown […]

Inauguration Scheduled for Saturday, January 31
Green Burial Council Exec, others to speak at Moles Greenacres Memorial Park in Ferndale, WA
Ferndale, WA — January 23, 2009 — Moles Family Funeral Homes and Greenacres Memorial
Park, Whatcom County’s family-owned provider of funeral services for four generations, is announcing the
inauguration of The Meadow, Western Washington’s first natural burial ground. […]

The Meadow, a new, natural burial ground, opens this week in Ferndale
By KRISTIN DIZON, Seatle PI
Giving added meaning to the phrase “pushing daisies,” Western Washington’s first green cemetery opens this week.
The Meadow, a natural burial ground in Ferndale, will inter unembalmed bodies in a simple, biodegradable coffin or shroud, without concrete vaults or liners. It […]

Former EastEnders star Wendy Richard, who was buried in a wicker coffin, has brought greener funerals into the spotlight. Kate Hodal looks at green funerals, from being laid to rest in bamboo to having your body “promessed”
By, The Press and Journal
THE recent funeral of former EastEnders star Wendy Richard was always going to attract attention, […]

Reno has Nevada’s only funeral home certified by the Green Burial Council
By Kat Kerlin
In Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman wrote, “I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles.”
To decompose and return to the earth is natural for all living […]

An ordinance concerning the dead still is stirring up a lively debate.
By Jennifer Burk
More than two months after the Bibb County Commission passed a cemetery ordinance restricting how and where bodies may be buried, opponents and supporters of the law still are arguing the issue. Beth Collins, CEO of Summerland Natural Cemetery, and her partner, […]

By KATIE SEMINARA, Vindy .com
Hybrid vehicles, reusable grocery bags and energy-efficient light bulbs come to mind when some people think of conservation. Now, the last possible way for a person to “go green” is offered by some local funeral homes — through green burials. “It’s going back to a simpler form of burial,” said Dan […]

By GO Press Releases News & Opinion
The “natural burial” movement is blooming in the United States, and it will get a huge boost this week when Meredith Vieira, the host of NBC Today Show, interviews Carmen Flowers. Flowers is one of the authors of a new book titled Grave Expectations - Planning the End of […]

The owner of a country estate has unveiled plans to extend Norfolk’s first woodland burial site by creating a new wetland nature reserve.
The Colney Wood Memorial Park, near Norwich, was opened for burials and the scattering of ashes in 2000, despite concerns from villagers over the impact on a conservation area.